Battle Quotes

• We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • War
  • Situation
  • Face

• It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Battle
  • Flirting
  • Banter

• If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Engagement
  • Metaphor

• I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

  

  Emory Upton
  • Dead
  • saw
  • Heaps

• Actually I don't mind the gym when I get there, but I hate the psychological battle I have to go through to get there.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Gym
  • Battle

• The angel of death, she said proudly, touched me when I was a child, with the exact same illness as now, but I screwed him, even though I was just a girl. And you'll see, I'll screw him again, because I know how to suffer. I learned at the age of ten, I haven't stopped since. And if you know how to suffer, the angel respects you, after a while he goes away. As she spoke she pulled up her dress and showed me the injured leg like the relic of an old battle. She smacked it, observing me with a fixed half-smile on her lips and terrified eyes.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Death
  • Child
  • Learned

• The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Up
  • War
  • Reason

• But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Humanity

• There is a brewing battle in the GOP for the future of this party.

  

  Chris Barron Spin Doctors
  • Future
  • Party
  • Battle

• All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Save
  • Generals

• The wish to be super strong is a healthy wish, a vital compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build up this inner compulsion by stimulating the child's natural longing to battle and overcome obstacles, particularly evil ones, the better chance your child has for self-advancement in the world.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Children
  • Wish
  • Desire

• Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Battle

• If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • Demands
  • Engineers
  • Warfare

• Their style emphasized four bedrock principles: Surprise Aggressiveness Deception The leader’s personal presence in the battle.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Principles
  • Deception
  • Aggressiveness

• And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • War
  • Grave
  • Tenderness

• Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle.

  

  J. E. B. Stuart
  • Believe
  • Enemy
  • Battle

• The battle with cable is here. This deal will make the new AT&T better able to compete, not just with cable and satellite but with all the new technologies that are coming at them.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Deal
  • Cable
  • AT&T

• Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do with, in this case an ongoing battle between Muslims.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • Danger
  • Journalism
  • Cases

• It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Soldiers
  • Speeches

• I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Drugs
  • Recover
  • Smoked

• Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Talent
  • Existence
  • Battle

• I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Spirit
  • Battle
  • Soldiers

• Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And so it's very important that we are able to build those alliances. And where we don't do what in a way to extremists want us to do, which is to make this into a battle between the West and Islam - it's not. This isn't a clash between civilizations. It's about whether the values of tolerance and respect for difference prevail.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Tolerance

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